Hogwarts founder returns to campus

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, eighth floor, headmaster's office.

It was a large, beautiful circular room, and although it was still summer, the fire was still burning in the fireplace.

On the wooden table with slender legs, there are many strange and weird silverware, spinning, spewing out small puffs of smoke.

The smoke and the temperature from the fireplace intertwined, making the portrait of the headmaster on the wall behind the desk drowsy, with yawns coming and going, and some of the portraits even started to snore.

In the center of the room is a huge desk with claw-shaped legs, and next to it is a sycamore bird stand carefully wrapped in brass. Phoenix Fox stands on it and sings softly.

And the owner of the principal's office, Dumbledore, was sitting on a chair, enjoying the singing of the phoenix while eating lemon snow treasure.

Finally, there was a knock on the door of the principal's office.

"Please come in."

Minerva McGonagall, wearing a dark green robe, walked into the headmaster's office, but to Dumbledore's surprise, McGonagall's hair was a little messy.

"Are you in trouble?" Dumbledore straightened his clothes and sat upright on the chair. "It seems that today is not going well."

"It was a little accident. The child you asked me to observe carefully is indeed very different." Mag seemed to have noticed his hair bun, and said while taking out his wand to tidy up.

"Is it different? Is there a problem with the choice of wand?" Dumbledore said his conjecture.

"Well, and not only that. With Mr. Ollivander, the wand chooses him, but is frightened of him."

"Scared? So he didn't manage to buy a wand for him in the end, did he?"

"Yes, Mr. Ollivander said there would be a suitable wand."

"I can imagine that Garrick is full of energy. As a wand maker, he should have been looking forward to such a challenging job for a long time." Dumbledore laughed, "Please continue."

"After I left, he went back to the pharmacy and bought two more copies of the potion materials needed for admission. He also bought some unmarked medicinal materials on the list. Many medicinal materials have not even been used by me."

With a wave of McGonagall's wand, a piece of parchment flew towards Dumbledore and slowly unfolded.

On the parchment are all kinds of potion ingredients: the feathers of the ball-stalking bird, the powder of the sharp-beak of the ball-stalking bird, the powder of the claws of the ball-stalking bird, tincture of dandelion, fairy wings...

"Is Salazar going to travel? Why did he make this potion?" Dumbledore has seen potion formulas involving ball-stalking birds in some library books, and those formulas are as old as Hogwarts An old recipe from the founding days.

Using materials such as the feathers, beaks, and claws of the ball escape bird, some potions that assist apparition can be made.

However, with the improvement of the broomstick and the appearance of the Floo Network, modern wizards no longer need to make this potion.

He was able to know the existence of this potion because there was a book describing ancient potions in the restricted area - "Medieval Potion Formula".

In addition, what made Dumbledore feel even more strange was where Salazar got the money, so he asked McGonagall: "The price of these materials is not cheap, it was given by the Tonks family. of?"

"I don't think so, the source of the money is unknown at the moment. I feel very strange about this kid Salazar. I gave him a chocolate sponge cake before leaving, but he still insisted on paying for it himself, so I think He wouldn't ask Tonks and the others for such a large sum of money," McGonagall said.

Then McGonagall continued in a slightly hesitant voice: "Maybe it has something to do with the challenge of the old Gamp wine at the Leaky Cauldron. Tom said that there was a wizard who lost his wand. He challenged twice in one day and took a hundred Garen's bonus."

"So you think this wizard completed the challenge with the help of Salazar?" Dumbledore crossed his fingers together, "But this child was not chosen by the wand. I have never seen a natural wandless spellcaster, nor I haven't seen it in the book."

"I'm not sure, but after what you said just now, I feel that Salazar has something to do with this matter. When he returned to the Leaky Cauldron, there was a scar on the back of his right hand, or I thought it was a scar .”

Dumbledore looked up, watching McGonagall draw a pattern in front of him, like a burning flame.

He felt that this mark was very familiar, but he couldn't tell where he had seen it...

Now that this information is connected, it makes him even more confused. He can only make a bold assumption: Salazar can use magic because of this brand, although he currently has no way of knowing the origin of the brand.

"Besides, he also met Newt's grandniece." Professor McGonagall's tone changed obviously.

"Oh! Cassandra! Newt mentioned it to me a few times, and he would always proudly say in front of me that his grand-niece was a born magizoologist, and Cassandra, who did it in Diagon Alley What?"

Dumbledore couldn't help showing a smile. The last time he saw Newt's grand-niece was next to Loch Ness. She wanted to use a bridle with a placement spell to get into the lake and tame the horse-shaped water monster hidden inside.

"She was selling her newspaper to the manager of the Fantastic Beasts Store, and she was still wearing a mask. She probably didn't want the manager to know that she was Newt's grandniece." McGonagall's pronunciation was even shorter, as if she wanted to skip it quickly this topic.

"Newspaper? What's the name of the newspaper? What's in it?"

""Muggles and Magic", publicizes the way Muggles raise cats, and then use this method to raise a cat raccoon."

"This is very similar to what Cassandra would do. Does it work well?" Dumbledore looked at Fox next to him, thinking whether he should ask Cassandra to study how to raise phoenixes to improve the old man's life. Life.

"If you look at the effect in the newspaper, it's really good, but Muggle things won't be accepted by wizards." McGonagall's speech became faster and faster, as if she really wanted to skip this topic.

Dumbledore looked at the strange McGonagall, and a bold guess suddenly appeared in his heart: "Minerva, did you get caught by Cassandra as a cat?"

"Ahem!" Mag showed a rare look of embarrassment, her lips were almost pursed into a line, and she could not see a little rosiness. She said in a blunt tone: "That's all I know. If there is nothing else, I will Just leave first."

"Thank you, Minerva." Dumbledore nodded, watching McGonagall leave the principal's office.